Over 40 years experience in creating Rapid Aluminum Tooling Using Traditional Tooling Methods

Rapid Aluminum Tooling

Plastic Prototypes

– No Design Limits –

Your Injection Molded Plastic Prototype Concept

We Build to Your Specification.

Rapid Plastic Prototypes usually means compromising on the design in order to receive parts quickly and cost efficiently. We blend traditional Injection Molding Tooling methods with Aluminum Tooling to rapidly produce production quality Plastic Prototypes in 3 weeks or less, check out our Aluminum Tooling Lead Times.

Plastic Prototype’s that compromise and limit your design? Cheap on the front side isn’t so cheap at the cost of expensive lessons learned in production start-up. Our customers need and want Injection Molded Plastic Prototypes that show their design live, fit and function so they can learn from it and move directly into production. View our Aluminum Tooling Cost Savings Study we did for a major appliance OEM client.

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3D Printed Molds

3D Printed Prototype Parts

Rapid Plastic Prototypes Just Got Faster

Plastic Parts in Hours

3D Printing creates fit & function parts in hours. We now are making 3D printed molds for short run prototyping. Now you can get all the speed benefits of 3D printing along with the learning process from Aluminum Tooling. This ensures a smooth transition from true prototypes to production quality parts from Aluminum Tooling or other materials.

3D printed molds can run many types of materials and 3D printed molds are fitted with everything a traditional mold is fitted with… water lines, cam slides, core pins, lifters, etc.

Depending on the resin and part geometry, 3D printed molds are well suited for about 100 shots in general.

WATCH – Aluminum Tooling Benefits and Cost Savings

Watch Bob Lammon the founder of PHOENIX PROTO in his Aluminum Tooling Presentation explain how you can close the “gap” between traditional P20 injection mold tooling and rapid tooling by using Aluminum Tooling. He outlines the misconceptions about Aluminum Tooling that has been prevalent since the 1980’s. There is a reason why 7075 grades of Aluminum are “Aircraft Grade”, not to mention why cookware uses Aluminum due to it’s excellent thermal conductivity. Learn more about the myths and facts about Aluminum Tooling here.

It is also a fact that Aluminum Tooling and the Rapid Prototypes it produces can hold tight tolerances. In fact Aluminum Tooling is the perfect match for fields with rapid product development turnover like medical research, development and production. Learn more about Aluminum Tooling for rapid plastic medical prototypes.

Our ability to take a project from concept through design, mold construction, production, and assembly has made us the Aluminum Tooling for Injection Molding source to go to for many major OEM’s. PHOENIX PROTO’s Rapid Injection Molding process helps design engineers get real injection molded parts in prototype or low-high volume quantities. Our process has been leaned down to remove excess time and cost yet producing real production quality injection molded plastic parts fasterthan anyone else at a lower price made here in the USA.

You are not just a number to us, or going to receive attention based solely on your purchase order. Our goal is long term relationships with all of our customers. We achieve that through clear communication, response time, proper part design techniques, delivery commitments along with excellent quality that allows our customers to reach their market the fastest with the least amount of cost.

Bridge Tooling | Plastic Prototype Tooling

50,000, 100,000, 250,000, 1,000,000+ Bridge tooling, soft tooling, pilot production, market testing, gap testing, etc. Called by any name it still is pre-production quantities. The plastic prototype chosen is important in how successful the project will be in closing the “gap” and crossing into full production or a new design. Our rapid Aluminum Tooling gets you there faster.Read More

8 Myths About Aluminum Tooling

These are the most common myths about Aluminum tooling. Our Team has been creating injection molded prototypes and production volumes from Aluminum Tooling since the late 1970’s. We continue to have great success with them to this day. Recently due to a variety of factors ranging from cost, lead times, volumes etc Aluminum tooling for injection molded plastic parts.Read More

Tooling – Molding Troubleshooting

We are Scientific Molding Principles Market specialists. Use our technical experience in injection molding, traditional tooling methods, CNC machining, and Lean Manufacturing to bring a better product to market. We’ll help you reinvent the wheel and build a better “product”. It’s better to have a knowledgeable partner working with you helping you to create the best possible plastic part.Read More